Historic Barnegat Lighthouse

HISTORIC BARNEGAT LIGHTHOUSE Barnegat Lighthouse State Park, Ocean County, New Jersey "Grand Old Champion of the Tides" Built 1856-58 by Lt. General George Gordon Meade, later hero of Gettysburg. 172 feet tall; 2nd old- est lighthouse in America. Prisms cast in Paris 1847. Often called "'Savior of the Sea''. Bathing, fishing, picnicking facilities. Copyright 1962-The Scheller Co., Hackettstown, N. J. 59971 Mar 16,474